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...first to graduate entirely under the General Education curriculum, but they may find themselves in classes that are strikingly similar to ones taken by their older peers. The Standing Committee on General Education has recently approved more courses to fill out the eight Gen Ed categories. But currently, the vast majority are drawn from departmental courses and the Core curriculum, with very few newly-designed courses made specifically to suit Gen Ed categories. Although the lack of brand new courses made some wonder about just how novel the new program is, others argued that natural overlaps between the Core...
...National Security Agency (NSA), which collects the vast bulk of chatter for this country, has no shortage of sophisticated equipment and no legal obstacles when it listens to chatter abroad. What it does have a problem with is making sense of the sea of chatter it sucks out of the air and the world's fiber-optic cables. The risk of misinterpretation or missing a vital piece of information is enormous. (See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...Still, as unreliable as it is, chatter is the future of intelligence. When agent reporting - clandestine human sources - is good, it is very good. But the vast majority of the people who volunteer to spy for the U.S. do so out of desperation or a grudge. From the start, the CIA presumes they are lying, distorting and fabricating information. It will take an intelligence officer years to sort out good from bad sources. And even then he will have to fall back on chatter for his vetting - though with chatter, there is a presumption of honesty and frankness when...
...Still, Congress is already unhappy with the vast sums of money the government is plowing into financial sinkholes like Citigroup and AIG that have been deemed too big to fail, and Geithner may have a hard time persuading it to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars more if necessary, as he said on Tuesday it might be. When the Administration rolls out its more detailed bank-bailout plans in the next few weeks, Geithner will have another chance to salvage his reputation as a salesman. But the truth is, if the plans fail on their...
...Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who is considered an intellectual ally of Samir. "It is not that he is inspired by me," Samir says of the Pope. "We just have the same line of thinking on this subject. Without being a specialist of Islam, His Holiness has a vast culture and knowledge in human and world religious affairs that allows him to analyze the Muslim world." For the first new Pope since 9/11, history alone will be the judge of Benedict's analysis of and actions toward his Muslim brothers...